One app that I use consistently that is data driven is the ESPN app. The rows for this would include the team, what league they are playing in, their record, who their next opponent is. It could also go as far as having the overall team stats, and the individual player stats specific to each team.

An example of a KPI that we use everyday would be the weather. It is something that can be very important for our day to day lives, and it has all of the SMART qualities. It is specific because you can narrow it down to place, day, or hour, Measurable in that we can have amount of precipitation or temperature, Attainable at any time through…[Read more]

The thing from this article that I have definitely done before is Number 3, which is not doing a full backup when you’re working on something. This actually happened to me last class when we were working on Excel and as I was going through my work Excel shut down unexpectedly. This then sent me from being almost finished to barely started in…[Read more]

For this set of data I decided to go with all the data that is compiled for the Premier League in England on their website. The reason that this is such a good set of data is the fact that it doesn’t just focus on the few main stats like goals and assists, but has a wide range of…[Read more]

I think that bit is most important to “be skeptical.” Especially with how easy it is for us to just google search things today, people tend to just believe whatever hey see on the internet. In reality, anyone is able to put whatever they want on the internet, meaning just because you find it doesn’t necessarily mean that it is true. You need to…[Read more]

The chart that I decided to go with for this is a vertical line chart which shows the amount of TV watched by different age groups. This graph starts in the 1st quarter of 2011 and finishes in the 3rd quarter of 2016. The graph shows that for ages 12-49 that…[Read more]

https://www.bls.gov/cex/tables.htm
Being a business major I tried to find something that gave data on what certain consumers in different ages, demographics, genders, and different incomes are like. This data can give you everything about different areas of people, from what their average income is, to what they spend most of their money on.…[Read more]

One example of conventional wisdom that “sports teams always perform better when they are at home.” In order to test this you would have to take multiple teams from multiple different sports and leagues and compare their records and overall performance in home games to that of away games. Also you would have to take into account if things like…[Read more]